Chapter 271: Demon Hunter of Blackbird City
Ilan Bird looked up at the dark building in the rain in front of him, took a closer look, and saw a small sickle symbol.
This way, I feel a little more at ease.
He pulled down his hood to shield himself from the rain and stepped under the eaves.
On the side, he found a small door and knocked on it six times in a special rhythm.
The door then opened a little, revealing an orange light.
A child who looked no more than five or six years old poked his head out timidly. One of his eyes was normal, but the other had a large hole dug out from the eye socket and a mechanical prosthetic eye inserted into it.
The child looked up at the unfamiliar face under Bird's hood, and was alert that it was not someone he knew, so he hurriedly tried to close the door, but Bird raised his hand to hold it in place.
How can a five or six-year-old child have the strength to compare with an adult?
Bird just exerted a little force and the door was pushed open a gap big enough for him to pass through.
He quickly slipped in and closed the door.
The child fell to the ground, looked at him with fear, and opened his mouth to scream, but Bird quickly leaned over and covered his mouth.
"Shh..." Covering the child's mouth, Bird made a gesture to silence him, but he only heard the clicking sound of a loaded gun behind him.
"Let him go!"
Bird paused.
The child broke free and used his hands and feet to crawl behind the person who came and hid, leaving only his head exposed, looking at him in fear.
Elan Bird raised his hands and said, "Calm down! Calm down! It's me!"
"Bird?" The man behind him seemed to recognize his voice, but was not sure.
"It's me, Tim, calm down," said Elan Bird, turning around.
He thought he would see a handsome face.
Tim Vent was the most handsome one in their demon hunter team. When they were together, they often teased him that he looked too conspicuous and was not suitable to be a spy in the demon hunter team.
However, when he turned around and actually saw the face of his comrade, he was shocked.
The handsome young man's face was gone, leaving only a face covered with scars. From under those scars, Bird could vaguely distinguish the appearance of Tim Vent in his memory.
"What happened to you?"
Tim Vent slowly put down the gun in his hand and sighed: "Bird, you shouldn't have come."
"How could I not come? The five of you entered Blackbird City, and for more than a month, no news came out. We had agreed to exchange intelligence every week, but we waited for a long time at the intelligence point outside and didn't get any news from you. Instead, we attracted the guards of Blackbird Heavy Industry and almost got exposed..."
"It's not that we don't want to pass on the information..." Vent stopped talking halfway.
He leaned over and said something to the child hiding behind him, then let him go. Then he said to Bird, "Let's go, take a rest in the back, have a cup of hot water, and then we can talk in detail."
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Elan Bird and Tim Winter, both of them are members of the Alliance Demon Hunter Organization, and can be considered the first members.
When the Demon Hunter Organization was first established, two teams were recruited. One went south to fight corruption, and the other was the team they were in.
They set out with the caravan, heading west, and stayed in several oasis settlements in the Western Desert for some time, collecting some intelligence, and then continued their journey west to the western side of the continent.
Their ultimate goal is to collect intelligence about Blackbird Heavy Industries on the west side of the continent, and make efforts for the alliance to recover the last piece of land on the planet.
Now, the only enemy left for the Alliance on the Angry Owl Star is Blackbird Heavy Industries.
There was no need to pay much attention to the numerous desert oases in the Western Desert and the settlements built around the pre-war planting factories. They had neither a unified organization nor a strong enough military force. After the bumper harvest in the Qinggu region, even the food that they had originally considered an important strategic resource was no longer important to the alliance.
The only obstacle to regaining the Western Desert is the complicated relationship between them and Blackbird Heavy Industries.
But when they arrived at the western part of the continent, to the area actually controlled by Blackbird Heavy Industries, they saw a landscape completely different from what they had imagined.
The natural environment here is still very harsh, and people's lives are still quite difficult. It is not much better than the many settlements before they were liberated by the Alliance, and is simply not as good as the current living standards of the Alliance's E5 level and above.
However, what is completely different from the settlements before they were liberated by the Alliance is that the western part of the continent has complete and unified governance.
Based on their life and exploration in this land for almost a year, they felt that the Blackbird Group was a big company - of course, they were - and the 15 million people living here were all employees of this company.
There is a strict relationship between the upper and lower levels, task indicators broken down to each person, an organizational structure divided into departments, and a clear management hierarchy...
An order issued from Blackbird City, the headquarters of Blackbird Heavy Industries, can actually be transmitted layer by layer to a specific individual.
Blackbird Heavy Industry will issue its own internal currency as salary and pay it to everyone: there is no basic salary, only commission based on workload and work performance.
Likewise, they will also open supply stations in various places. Residents can use their wages to buy what they need for life...
This kind of social structure brought a lot of trouble to the new demon hunters like Bird in the process of collecting intelligence.
They are new faces. In this huge "company", there are relatively few connections between departments, and the faces that communicate and interact with each other are relatively familiar.
At the beginning, they caused a lot of trouble, exposed their identities, and were hunted down.
But gradually, they soon found some tricks.
In a large company like Blackbird Heavy Industries, there are many common problems in large organizations: there are too many people, which makes organization more difficult and it is difficult for everyone to know each other.
They rely more on identity tags and codes to identify each other.
Ambush, capture, interrogation, torture… they obtained a lot of intelligence, gradually learned how to disguise, and began to feel at ease.
Soon, they were no longer satisfied with simply collecting intelligence from the periphery. Their eyes began to focus on the headquarters of Blackbird Heavy Industry - Blackbird City.
However, there is another world over there.
It was so mysterious and closed that they couldn't even find a way to get in. It was as if the entire huge city with an estimated population of seven million people did not need communication between the inside and the outside.
(End of this chapter)
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